Research Topics

Philosophy of mind. Quantum approaches to consciousness. Models of psychosomatic phenomena worked out within the framework of a generalized quantum theory: placebo effect, appearance and development of diseases.

Philosophy of science. Universality of the concepts of complementarity and entanglement. Proposal for a logic of entanglement.

Time and irreversibility issues. Informational theory of time from which can be derived the second law of thermodynamics and a time-energy uncertainty relation. Theories of branching space-time.

Cursus

2013
Habilitation in Philosophy of Science
"Entanglement as an organisational principle of phenomena", University Paris-Diderot, Supervisor: Jean-Jacques Szczeciniarz.

May 2015
(University Paris-St Denis) Conference on "The time of things, the substance of time", co-organised by the University Paris-St Denis and the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST).

“A Quantum Approach to the Psychosomatic Phenomenon: Co-Emergence and Time-Entanglement of Mind and Matter”, Kronoscope, the journal of the International Society for the Study of Time, 12:2 (2012) 219-244.

“A Cognitive Interpretation of the Notion of ‘Uncertainty in Time’ within the Framework of Modern Physics ”, in Harris & Crawford (eds.), Study of Time, vol. XI: “Time and Uncertainty”, Leiden/Boston: Brill, (2002): 204-228.

Teaching of Physical Science, as a fully-qualified teacher since 1995, and of logic and philosophy of science to students in science and philosophy, for different pathways and different levels (DUT, licence, master, paramedical professions, medical science,…).

Head of the laboratory of Physical Science.

Before 1982Teaching of Physical Science in public high school

Editorial activity

Editorial secretary of Lato Sensu, the journal of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences.

Dissemination of knowledge

Scientific expert at the Pariscience Festival (13th edition), around the screening of the movie "When you look away" by Phie Ambo, Auditorium of the Great Gallery of Evolution (National Museum of Natural History), October 2017.

TV show on BAGLIS TV: Number, Time and Synchronicity, with Christophe Le Moüel (Executive Director of the C. G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles), interview by Eric Pigani, July 2016.

Video recording of the ’Workshop on Entanglement’ organized and animated on 28-29 November 2014; cameraman: Michael Wright (available on demand).

Radio show: Interview on the quantum approaches to consciousness. Radio Thésard, March 30, 2010. Organization: David Christoffel.